On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 13:43, Maciej Piechotka <[email protected]> wrote: > While it might be a stretch analogy but some people argue in various > companies (not every company and it may be argued how good the policy > is) to open the discussion/design process to community (I think I heard > about Dell, Starbucks and others). Of course it is company who plays the > role of beneficial dictator in this model nonetheless the consumers may > be proven to be valuable source of feedback and ideas (even if the need > to be filtered out).
You characterized the situation with the power manager as a "crisis" and yet, while your description is more than a little hyperbolic, that situation demonstrates that precisely what you are asking for is not productive. There were a total of four blog posts on the topic and approximately 200 comments posted to those. There wasn't any negative feedback on any of those four post's comments that was well researched or particularly informed about all the issues that need to be considered. Even people who tried to offer alternatives didn't seem particularly informed about common use cases or what other operating systems are doing (all research that had previously been done by the design team). There was some legitimate concerns expressed, particularly about why the research shows that AC and on-battery are the same situation, but that was a tiny minority of the feedback and not surprisingly, a large majority of this informed discussion happened on IRC in #gnome-os and #fedora-desktop--not on a mailing list or blog. Design is a process which anyone is welcome to get involved in by way of researched proposals, mock-ups, or use-case studies. But asking the design team to post every decision that they make to d-d-l so that they can have the opportunity to be stop-energy-ed by community members who haven't researched or considered the situation, would not be productive. That isn't to say that more wiki documentation couldn't help. Specifically, I need some more documentation to make one of the marketing videos that are upcoming. But I'm not asking for that information so that I can argue about it--I'm not on the design team. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
